~ @he Democratre A atchman.
VOL. 7. BELLEFONTE, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1862. NO. 13.
State has yet delivered itself ehtirely from [a Territory, and found it was not profitable ; slavery can be limited to its present bounds, February. This time is allowed to’ enable
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those habits. We. in New York, are guilt il i t else ? ® ¢ | { Louisiana and Texas to participate
IWiseellaneo ins. of slavery still by withholding the ih of 9 2 Arg ® tamed, phi Ag rl What, clge c I qr 0 r . [t seemed to be the opinion that if we loft
suffrage from the race we have emancipated, | 2°0'189¢d it, just 28 our siivitis rien 8 ' « [1 CAN BE AMELIORATED. IT CAN AND MUST ia = here, force, loan and volunteer bills might be
You. in Ohio. are guilty in the same way by |across the ocean did. They established BE ABOLISHED, AND YOU AND I CAN AND MUST | — A Devil Still passed, which would put Mr. Lincoln in im-
DOUGLAS ON NEGRO EQUALITY. a system of laws still more aristocratic and | slavery in all their colonies, and when they | Do IT’ mediate condition for hostilities—whereas.,
. odious. It is written in the Constitution of | found they could not make any more money | There you find are two propositions : first, by remaining in our places until the 4th’ of
SPEECH OF HON, S A DOUGLAS, the United States that five slaves shell count | | oo it, ns it. I hol a the Mf J slavery was to be limited igh States in| BF Sy Wass: Maret 3 ugh! 72 op 2p oe ht fgnds
IN REPLY TO nu IN Vio tion of slavery is one of political cconoms, | which it was then situated. It did not then | Written for the Waieutuua ] publicans from ects pk Hb el
8 LATION OF DIVINE LAW. that we shall | governed by the laws of climate soil, pro- | existin any Territory. Slavery was confined If any one hath inklings fliesyy which will strengthen the hands of the incom"
Mr. Seward and Mr. Trumbull. surrender the fugitive slave who takes ref |ductions, and self-interest, and not by mere | to the States. The first proposition was that fe haar ho Hell Sau on ng Administration.
sre x on or ue cn Beis 5 kt orion, Twit th | sir vt an oid | Mot mse | "HE ob
srarTes, FEB. 29, 1860. : trine, that because free institutions may be | those States. The second was that he, asa A Devil still is honored here! L have not been able to find Mr. Mallory
There Se hid Sa) sama best in one climate, they are, necessarily, New Yorker, and they, the people of Ohio, this mornmg. Hawkins (the Represcuta
Mr. PresipeNT :—1 trust I shall be par- | that the Constitution 0 th e nite 3: tates the best everywhere ; or that because sla-| must and would abolish it ; that is to Say, WEih Lat ths rts of - tive from Florida) is in Connecticut. [ have
doned for a few remarks upon so much of | i8 “sn violation of the Divine law.” and. very may be indispensable in one locality, | abolish it in the States. They could abolish . Snip ohn therefore thought it best to send you this
For once, I ohanced a form to meat,
i obeyed, You are told in : . But in his mavhood’s dark rotroat, copy of the resolutions.
the'flenator’s speech ss SORSS 0 an a fhisrenen: hob a Be fo rk slaves, | therefore it is desirable everywhere. T hold | it no where eise. Every appeal they make to Presentiment would read asd scan, 4 In haste, yours truly,
sault on the Democratic party, and especial- | that the clause relating RI "| that a wise statesmait will always adapt hig | northern prejudice and passion, is against tho A Devil still,~a human cheat?’ D. L. Yrree.
ly with regard to the Kansas Nebraska bill, | being in violation of Divine law is not binding Tegistation, to the wants. mierests, condition Iumitution of slavers evry where, and would Josepa Frvxeaaw, Esq,
Again and yet again. [ met
z : i i i : : ; y “ spol 3 ion. tlissaa
of which I was the responsible author. Tt x Ranking. This ls ih ne Toetrive g and necessities of the people to be governe d not be able to retain their abolition allies, And to my sorrow, on life's way, Sorsrsipey Oanwestion,” Tallsisense,
has become fashionable now-a-days for each e a. > y gh at — for | PY it One people will bear different insti | the rank and file. unless they hold out the This mediam. spirit alphabet, The following are the resolutions referred
gentleman making a speech against the Ds hear : the a puny °imions from. ano ther. One climate de. | hope that i* was the mission of the Republi Yot every roading read this wag— loin the above letter :
Democratic party, to refer to the Kansas | the first time. BYp NOL met In, ly own ds different msutations fi . I, can party, if successful, to abohsh slavery “A Devil still—to wrath in dabt. Resolved, That in our opinion each of the
2 State, for the last this & a mands rent nsututions from another. i p : ‘
Nebraska act as the cause of all the disturb oe = 4 Sanyare ihn Si repeat, then, what [ have had occasion to | in the S:ates a8 well as in the territories of Art conjured up his style benign ; Sostnem Sisley Sails, &s 30on as may be,
ances that have since ensued. They talk hata in Pin as | 387: that T do not think uniformity is either | the Union “4 No oloven foot—nor branchy hoad,— Resyived. Tint provision shoald bs made
about the repeal of a sacred compact that a or 2 nl possible or desira’le. T wish to see no two| And again in the same speech, the Senator No roaring voioe—nor eyes malign, for a Convention te organize Confederacy
had been undisturbed for more than a quar- | equal ; thal X38 nego and whe an sre States precisely alike in their domestic in | from New York advised the people to disre- Nor ny ig had i ofdread i= ., |of the seceding States, the Convention to
tne ea es A sor ms TAS En BL my ad Clio Shims | AB i (ETRE 8 STS
of violated faith had been faithful to the pro on the supposition that each State has some- | Words : Bris dows Is ton gus bd ingles power; ! ig Sy :
visions of the Missouri compromise. Sir, | tablished inequality betneen the negro and
wherein consisted the necessity for the re. |the white man is void, because contrary to
peal or abrogation of the act, except it was | the law of God.
that the majority in the Northern States re~| The Senator from New York says, in the
fused to carry out the Missouri compromise | very speech from which I have quoted. that
in good faith 7 1 stood wiking to extend it | New York is yet a slave State. Why 2—
to the Pacific Ocean, and abide by it forev- Not that she has a slave within her limits,
or, and the entire South, without one excep. | but because the Constitution of New York
thing in her condition or climate, or her cir « But we must begin deeper and lower as BE ean : | Resolved, That in view of the hostile leg-
cumstances, requiring laws and institutions | than the composition and comnination of fac Tut i. gp his lislation that is threutened against the sece-
different from every other State of the Union, | 11’ OF parties. whe ein the strength and A Devil sill oo ce ooo | ding States, and which may be consamated
* {security of slavery lie. You answer that it A Devil sil that man might cower! Ip 2 Cro hih of March, we ask instructions
Hence I answer the question of the Senator lies in “he Constitution of the United States The inner, kolier lineaments | whether the delegations are to remain in
from Wisconam, that Tam willing that a and the constitutions and laws of slavehol Were counterfeit, yet o'er them shone Congress until that date for the purpose of
Territory settled by white men shall have ding States. Not at all. It is the e1roneous 3 defeating such legislation.
negroes, free or slave, just as the white men | Sentiment of the American people. Constitu Resolved, That a committee be and are
tions and laws can no more rise above the hereby appointed, consisting of Messrs.
A light that blanched the soul's intents,
As though an angel filled its throue ;
ion § ili j not allow a ne vote on an equality | Shall determine, but not as the negroes shall | virine of tue people than the limpid stream Abeta de vsinomunit! Il Biden dias carry out the
tion in this body, was willing thus to abide | does not allow a negro to vote o qUAliLY | resi yO hx heopls ton RD : rs : {2 ] AE l0rys J
by it ; but the free soil element of the with a white man. For that reason he says | Prescribe. can climb above its native spring. Inculeate Religion’s robos adornod his frame ; — { objects of this meeting. os it
’ ptt Se f New York h incd a | the love of ficedom and equal »2ghts of man The masque of perfidy within; The perusal of this letter brings to mini
Northern States was so strong as to defeat |New York is still a slave State; for that| The Senator from New York has coined a under the parental roo; ; see to 1t that they Benes i - pi £ some facts with reference to the course par
mnie fini o N 1 3 : eneficence proclaimed his fame, : 3 -
that measure, and thus open the slavery |1eason every other State that discriminates |new definition of the State s of the mn are taught in the sehools and in the churches Ari ian in sued by Mr. Buchanan about the time this
question anew. The men who now com. | between the negro and the white man 13 a | Labor States and Capital States. The epi reform your own code, extend a cordial wel- A Del ai Tan ra letter was written, to which we desirs to di -
i lave State, leaving bint a very few States in | tal States, I believe, are the slaveholding | come to the fugitive who lays his weary limbs rect public attention.
OE En] I : 4 States ; the labor States are the non-slave- | 4 your door. and defend hum as you would | . The Orphan's gnardian ho was styled, The commissioners appointed by South
very men who denounced all of us who were | the Union that are free from his objection. — holding States. Tt has taken that Senatop| 70%" Parental gods, correct your own error, The widow's friend--then robbod their stare, | Carolina to induce the Administration to
willing to abide by it, so long as it stood | Yet, notwithstanding the Senator is commit 1g ih $ laden NAOT | hat slavery 1s an unconstitutional quarran- The stranger he © took in,” aud smilod withdraw the garrison from Fort Sumter as
upon the statute book. Sir, it was the de [ted to these doctrines, notwithstanding the |2 good many years to coin that phrase "nd | tee which may not be released, and ougyt not to That such * take ing’ leal out no more the preliminary to the recognition of their
feat in the House of Representatives of the [leading men of his party are committed to | bring it into use. T have heard him discuss | be relinquished.’ A Devil still from hope exiled ! Disp made Jeers) Amps to fiv
. : these favorite theories of his for the last ten ; i auce Mr, buchanan to accede to their de-
enactment of the bill to extend the Missouri | them. he argues that they have been azcus. | these favo : . 3 I know they tell us that all this is to be The tenderest ties of unity mands. On the 30th of December he replied
compromise to the Pacific Ocean, after iy |ed of being in favor of negro equality, and | years, I think, and I never heard of capital done according to the Constitution except Were severed by a hand unseen ; in peremptory language ¢ This I cannot do;
had passed the Senate on my motion, that |says the tendency of their doctrine is the | States and labor States before. Tt strikes | so far as the Constitution violates the law These three—Faith, Hope, Charity, « this 1 will not do. Such an idea was nev-
opened the controversy of 1850. which was | equality of the white man. He introduces | me that something has recently occurred up | of God — that is all —and they are to he the Died a mysterious death—I woen seop thought of by me 1» any possible cantiz.-
terminated by the adoption of the measures | the objection. and fails to answer it. He |in New England that mak s it politic to ge' | judues of how far the Constitution does vi. A Devil atill the cause might bo ! ry Sante i
3 . : i anit: 3 3 0 0 these i85-
of that year. » * » * | states the proposition, and dodges it, to [Up a question bevween capital and labor. olate the law of G xh, They say that & Communities discordant grew, ioners their insolent letter in reply to Tie
Hence I am not willing to sit here and al- | leave the inference that he does not endorse | and take the side of the numbers against |g ause of the Constitution that recogMzes Where'e’s this night-shada’s presence fall ; peremtory refusal to withdraw the troops
! N y i it. 8ir,1 desire to see these gentlemen |the few. We have seen some accounts inf property in slaves. is in violation of the di. Broils, suits, strifes, wirs—all camo to vies, |from ehe Harbor of Charleston. Three days
low the Senator from New York, with all » B ! : proj Ta 2 y
the weight of authority he has with the pow- | carry out these principles to their logical | the newspapers of combinations and sirikes | vine law. and hence shouid not, be obeyed ; But whencs they came scarce one coals tall; | thereafter on the 5th of January, 1861, an
A Devil still unshipped the crow ! expedition got up by the Secretaries of War
yA ha Nay ada the direction of (Gen.
Stott, sailed fr
erful party of which he is the head, to ar-|conclusion. If they will persist in the de-|among the journeymen shoemikers in the
de the ¢ ) ih : om New York with reinforce.
raign me and the party to which 1 belong |claration that the neg
nd with that interpretationof the Constitu-
fun, they tarn to the Sonthrand say, We | “Wears Went —yeuts cimo—and T onos mors 1
g © £4
enator has a new word ready coined to gnit
withthe responsibilty Tor (hat agitation | h e'man. and that any equality is in will give you all your rights as we eaplain Returned. a pilgrim on life's way ; ments for Fort Sumter. On the 1ext day the
Nich rests soled n him ard his associ- | Violation of the Divine law, then let them | their 2ase, and wake laborers believe that he |; 1 I sat m> down on Time's lone shore, 6:h, it now appears that the rebel Senators
whic es ony von i carry it out in their legislation by conferring | i8 on the side of the most numerous class of | «Then the Senator devo'ed about one third A357 sinungs pens, tried irving from the seven cotton States by resslution.
ates. Sir, the Democratic party was willing ¢ 27 srhing SS ir phone DNL pac A Devil still sat there before ! expressed the opinion to their constitutents
% carry out the compromise in good faith.— | On the negros all the rights of ciiizenship the of his speech to a very beautiful homi'y on Condi et A is tes .. |that ** each of the Southern States should.
Having been defeated in that for the want of | Same as on white men. For one, I never| What produced that striking among the | the glories of our Union All that he has said. 5 Joe rf iit Infos lay tis {a i “ag s00n as may be, secede from the Union."
numbers, and having established the princi held to any such doctrine. I hold that the Jjourneymen shoemakers? Why are the all that any other man has ever said, al a a 3 brizht The Presiden alive to the danger, made
2 BE es! ¢ 5 : ; Ai e I= Ta a most earnest appeal to Congress by his
ple of non intervention in the compromise | Deelaration of Independence was only refer- | mechanics of New England, the laborers and | that the most eloquent tongue can ever utter Momentoes which repelled the soul ; message of the Eithth of ns (which
measures of 1850, in lieu of it. tbe Democratic | 0g to the white man—to the governing | employees now reduced to the starvation |in behalf of the blessings and the advanta. A Devil still might love to stay ! seems to have been forgoten) to mest the
party from that day to this has been faithful | race of this country, who were mn conflict | point 7 Simply because, by your treason, | ges of this glorious Union. I fully indorse. crisis. In this he informs them that *- in
Tris ; ; 3 3 t he had , the Lord k here. < . ,
to the new principle of adjustment. What with Great Britain, and had no reference to by your sectional agitation, you have created | But still, sir. I am prepared to say. that the Bushs hed Fons, the Lond knows here several of the States ¢ which have not yet
And left those wre :ks upon the shore :
ever agitation has grown out of the question the negro race at all, when it declared that | o strife between the North and the South | Union is glorious only when the Constitu- Anon, another rase comos there, iin Doha, 31 Wagan tus
since, has been occasioned by the resistance all en were created equal. : have driven away your southern customers. tion is preserved inviolate. He eulogized the Whom, too, for want of wisdom's lors, _ {* This is by far the most serious step which
of the party of which the Senator js the| Sir. if th@signers of that declaration had |and thus deprived the lahorers of the means | Union. I, too, am for the Union ; I endorse A Devil still might vanquish thar: ! | « hag heen taken since the commencement
head, to this great principle which has been | Understood the instrument then as the Sena | of support. This is the fruit of your’ Re- | the culogies ; but still, what is the Union In haste retreating, thought thus ran: 5 of the troubles. This public property bas
, : : hy : ‘ i riSOnS ¢ c a
ratified by the American people at two Pres- | tor from New York now construes it, were publican dogmas. Tt 1s another step, fllow. | worth, unless the Constitution is preserved “Of all the subtlest shapes of Hell, igs So) Sus
: : : hia) rvvi ; : a S i » cause no pe U
idential elections. If he was willing to ac- | they not bound on that day, at that very ing John Brown, of the irrepressible con and maintained inviolate in all its provis The fellest fills Gis foo of man ! ed its security under the flag of the coun-
quiesce in the solemn and repeated judgment hour, to emancipate their slaves 2 If Ar. | flict.” Therefore, we nov get this new coin | ions ? In Glory’s robes invested well, : “ try in any State of the Union. Besides
of that American people to which he appeals | Jefferson bad meant that his negro slaves | age of * labor States” —he is on the one side 8ir, T have no faith in the Union-loving A Devil til may work Ble plan ‘our small army has scarcely been suffizieut
there would be no agitation in this country | Were created by the Almighty his equals, | of the shoemakers, (laughter) and < capital | sentiments of thoss who will not carry out Bat Gabriel's trump shall stir the woall ot guard our remote frontiers agninst I+
was he not bound to emancipate the slives| States” —he is against those that furnish the Constitution in good faith, as our fathers Whero rests the dross of life's spent dans ; |, CAN Incursious. . i
Tow th day that he signed hi the hides. (Laughter,) I think those shoe 1 Professi tdelit : When its long heat hath tried tha gold, The dangerous and hostile attitude of the
Bu, sir, the whole argument of that Sena- | On the very day that he signed his name to 3% pater l #hos made 1t. Professions of fidelity to the Union on a saat aa uh ** States towards each other has already fa-
tor goes far beyond the question of slavery, | the Declaration of Independence Yet no | makers will understand this business. They | wilt be taken for naught, unless they are ra may clsimanota |. transcended and put in the shade the ordi-
!** nary execntivo dutics already provided for
*¢ by law, and bag assumed such vast and
‘alarming proportions as to place the sub-
even in the Territories. His entire argu-
ment rests on the assmption thal the negro
and the white man were equal by Divine
law, and hence that all laws and constitu
one of the signers of tht declaration eman |know why it is that thev do not get so accompanied by obedience to the Constitu | poo
cipated their slaves. No one of the States | many orders as they did a few months ago. | tion upon which the Union rests. I have a| March 27th'82, }
on whose behalf the declaration was signed, | It is not confined to the shoemakers; it| right to insist that the Constitution shall be CE “ject entirely above and beyond control. —
emancipated its slaves until after the Revo | reaches every mechanic's shop and factory. | maintained inviolate in all its parts, not on- |g I Do Love Thee. “ The fact cannot be disquised that we are
tions and governments in violation of the |1ulion was over. Every one of the original All the large laboring establishments of the | ly that which suits the temper of the North oT i oki iti fo Teele Ju ol
principle of negro equality are in violation of | C0lonies, every one of the thirteen origina] North feel the pressure produced hy He but every clause of that Constitution, wheth We % flon'to did A ie nity Jos
the law of God. That is the basis pon States. sanctioned and legal z-d slavery un- doctrine of the ‘‘irrepressible conflict. — | er you like it or dislike it. Your oath to | ritten ‘or the Wafshman.) Soa * nal under Provid nce possessing the pow-
which his speech rests. He quotes the De- ul after the Revolution was closed. These | This new eninage of words will not save | support the Constitution binds youto every 14 man nd : ‘“er to meet the emergency. To them ex
claration of Independence to show that the | facts show conclusively that the Declaration | them from the just responsibility that fol- | line. word. and syllable of the instrument. — lini Fae thriftiay hr i Slay peste power to declare war
fathers of the Revolution understood that | Of Independence was never intended to bear | lows tho doctrines they have been inculea | You have no rizht to say that any given By that love whitkinow my soil is Silty +. or to authorize the employ ment of milita.
: + :.1 | the construction placed it by the Sena- ! ting. If they had abandoned the doctrine clause isin vi lati f Divi 7 2 2 q force in all cases contemplated by the
the negro was placed on an equality with placed upon it by the Sena. ! > ; 4 i | eluse is in vio ation of Divine law, and that, I do love thee. «« Constitution ; and they alone possess the.
the white man, by quoting the clause, ‘we tor from New York. and by that enormous ! of the Insepiasiing conflict,’ and proc sim. | therefore, you will not observe it. The man “ power to remove grievances which wight -
hold these truths to be self evident. that all | tribe of lecturers that go throngh the coun- | ed the true doctrine of the Consti ution, | who disobeys any one clause. on the pretext “lead to war and to secure peace and union
BY THE MAN IN GREY.
By my cvery hope of faturs bliss,
By my soul's deep wretchedusss,
men are created equal, and are endowed by | try delivering lectures in country school | that each State 1s entirely free to do just us’ that it mrolates the Divinstaw. or any pre By my all—uy life—my love; .. to this distracted country.” On them and:
; a houses and basements of churches to Aholi |it pleases. have slavery as long a< it chooses. seat violates his oath hat's holy in Heaven ab on them alone rests the responsibility.”
their Creator with certain inalienable righta, | 10USeS an 2 y y a ta Na violates his oath of office. By all that's holy in Heaven above, On the day when this message was re-
among which are life, liberty and the pur- | !i00i8t5, in order to teach the children that |and abolish it when it wishes, there would But sir. what a commentary is the pretext 1 do love thee. ceived in Congress (January 9, 1861) Jeff.
suit of happiness.” Sir, the doctrine of that | the Almighty had put his seal of condemna. | be no conflizt; the northern and southern that the Constitution is a violation of the By thy own dear, gentle nature, Davis made a violent and abusive attack ox
Senator and his party is—and I have had to | tion Upon any inequality between the white | States would be brethren . there would be Divine law upon those revolutionary fathers By every sweet and kindly featur, PromnouaBasiensy and ge ine 1n
meet it for eight years—tha t the Declaration | M20 and the negro. . fraternity between us, and vour shoemakers whose eulogies we have heard here to day, By my every hope and fear, atos 5 ip 20 Sve, OF wiv confuien
: : , ia —— 1d not strike for higher prices. - g i By thy love,—home so dear, : :
of Independence intended to recognize the repay am free to say here woo n : > Gi ol thins iy the framer of a Ing aca mak 2 ¥ Yay Thin th. In what manuer did Congross raspond to
negro and the white man as equal under the | Wha ave sald over and over agam at ik . | Constitution in violation of the law of God? Boiiasonns this solemn appeal of the President ? They
Divine law, and hence that all the provisions | Bome—that, in my opinion, that this govern- | But, sir, if the Senator from New York, [f the Senator from New York stills holds to| March 29th "62. } did nothing. They refused to do anything
stati 7 ment was made by white men for the benefit |in the event that he is made President, in- his declaration that the clause in the Con 800 looking either to conciliation or to. force.-—
Sf thpteCode tition of io Rie Sais of white men i ig forever a tends to carry ont his principles to their log. ' Stitution relative to fugutive slaves is a vio. The Secession Plot and ths Late Presi- | The Thirty sixth Congress came to an. end
which recognizes slavery are in violation of 2 oO P forever, and iL lasi let h th i lation of the Divine law, how darc he. as an aent. on the third of March 1861, leaving the law
the Divine law. Io other words, it is an | Should be adnunistered by white men, and by | ical conclusions, let us see where they wi honest man. (ake an oath to support the in- — just as they had fond it, having deliberate-
argument against the Constitution of the |7"n¢ other whatsoever. lead him. In the same speech that T read gtrament ? Did he unders and that he was | A correspondent of the Naw York T'imes, |ly refused to grant :ither men or money for
United States the ground that it is con. | Mr- Doolittle—I will ask the honorable | from a few minutes ago, [ find the follow. defying the authority of Heaven when he | who accompanied the expedition which late- | the suppression of the rebellion. They
ni upon 30 grou he So from | Senator why not give the Territories to | ing. Addressing the people of Ohio, he ok the oath to support that instrument ? ly took possession of Fernandina, Florida. | would pass no law to enable either Mr. Bun
* . | . e e ra al diff'ren e between picRe Py r 0 Na: £ mn-« ar Pr Suc Sor even to prepa or
trary to the laws of God. The Senator from T5ie finn & a | Thus. we see the radical diff het ked up,-after tho hasty flizht of the in~ |chanan or his successor ev to prepare fo
New York has often proclaimed to the|Wtemen? hd, ! | the republican p riy and the Democratic par- | habitants. a number of interesting letters | such an emergency. [t was their refusal to
P ; . p ri} p C t Cre
world, that the Constitution of the United| Mr Douglas—Mr. President, Tam in fa-| © You blush not at these things, be- ty. is this : we stand by the Constitution as [and documents. some of which throw cone |do this which induced the present Adminis-
States was in violation of the Divine law, | VO" of throwing the Territories open to all | cause they have become as familiar as house- our fathers made it, and by the decisions of | siderable light upon the secret hisory of se- | tration not to attempt to coerce the rebel
and that Senator will not tradict the | the White men and all the negroes, too, that | the constituted authorities as they are pro- | cession. . Among these letters was one writ- | States into obedionce, and rendered it 1dis-
will not contradic e 100, : Y . 1 rae
statement. I have an extract from one of | choose to go, and then allow the white men | allies claim peculiar merit for maintaining
hold words ; and your pretended Fres Soil | nounced in obedience to the Constitution.— | ten on the 7th of January, 1861, by Mr. |pensable for President Lincoln to convene
They repudiate tho instrument, substitute | Yulee, then United States Senator from Congress in special session afier the attaslc
his speeches now before me, in which that | t0 govern the Territory. [ would uot let Is ketgasanims of slavery, wilch | their own will for that of the cons‘ituted | Florida : had been made on Fort Sumter.
proposition is distinctly put forth. In a! Ooneof the negroes, free or slave, either vote all this prove that the “hi arty have | uthorities as they are pronounced in obedi- Wasnmvarow, Jan. 7, 1861. We make no comments on these facts at
. . Er : ay bi g. par ig | ence to the Constitution, They repudiate the | My DEAR Sik :—On tha other side is a | this time. Oar present purpose is merely
speech made in the State of Ohio, in 1848, | OF hold office anywhere, where [ had the | kept up with the spirit of the age ; tht is! J A H / | } ,
ie h right, under the Constit Gi to prevent it. | as true and faithful to human freedom ag iDStrument, substitute their own will for | copy of resolutions adopted at a consultation to present the truth of history. From this
he said : right, er the Lonstitution, to prevent it. the inert conséience. of the American people | that of the constituted authorities, annul |ot the Senators from tho seceding States— | it appears that Congress ¢ kept the hands of
«Slavery is the sin of not some of the Lam in favor of each State and Territory of will permit it to be 2 Wnat then you say such provisions as their fanaticism. or pre- |in which G orgia, Alabama, Lowsiana, Ar | Mr. Buchanan tied ? and refused to pass
ies only, but of them all ; of not one na | this Union taking care of its own negroes. | ou nothing be done for freedom. because Juice. or policy may declare to be in viola- | kansas, Texas, Mississippi and Florida were | ** Force, Loan and Voluateer bills’ which
tgodlity, but of all nations. It perverted | free or slave. If they want slavery let them | (he public E remains inert 7 Yes Tion of Gd’ law, and then say, ¢ We will | present. : : would put Mr. Lincoln in immediate condi
wd corrupted the moral sense of mankind I nave it: If they desire to prohibit slavery. | mach can be drm everything oan be done, Protect all.your rights und-r the Constitution The idea of the meeting was that the | tion for hostilities, throughout their entire
deeply and universally, and this perversion I hem do its tt 3 9 pro ery, Slavery can be tinuted to. its resent bonnds, 28vXpounded dy ourselves ; but not as ex~ | States should go out at once, and provide | session and long atter the conspiring Say
0.8 universal Babit. Habits of thought el § Ismeoit; itis their busines not mine. | y pre: "pounded by the tribunal created for that pur- |for the early organization of & Confederate | tors had retired from their places. ——Dytpiat
become fixed principles. No American ' We, in lllinois tried slavery while we were ! That 1s the first thing that can be done— pose,” Government —not later than the Mth of lund hon
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